Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Soundview Executive Book Summaries® publishes summaries of the best business books of each year on entrepreneurial subjects including small business, business startups, partnerships, venture capital, business turnarounds and more. Browse our summaries to find inspiration for starting your new business venture.

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Entrepreneurial Leadership

The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff

by Joel Peterson

Joel Peterson lays out a path to make a lasting impact by following four core philosophies: establishing trust, creating a sense of mission, building a cohesive team, and executing and delivering results.

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Built, Not Born

A Self-Made Billionaire’s No-Nonsense Guide for Entrepreneurs

by Tom Golisano, Mike Wicks

From the importance of understanding your business and industry, to key questions for determining your choice of business, to fundamental principles for making deals and leading, Built, Not Born is essential reading for today’s entrepreneurs.

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The High Achiever's Guide

Transform Your Success Mindset and Begin the Quest to Fulfillment

by Maki Moussavi

The High Achiever’s Guide lays out a process for creating a new way of operating that you can use for the rest of your life to continue expanding and finding a holistic, redefined kind of success that has eluded you thus far.

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Fail Fast or Win Big

The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now

by Bernhard Schroeder

Fail Fast or Win Big is not about failing. It’s about embracing a specific way of thinking about creating and launching a company.

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Game-Time Decision Making

High-Scoring Business Strategies from the Biggest Names in Sports

by David Meltzer

Game-Time Decision Making provides everything you need to improve your decision-making game and build a championship-level business.

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Lost in Startuplandia

Wayfinding for the Weary Entrepreneur

by E. Keller Fitzsimmons

In Lost in Startuplandia, E. Keller Fitzsimmons discusses how getting clear about what is in our control can prepare us to take advantage of our good luck…whenever it comes around.

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You Are a Mogul

How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself and Do It Now

by Tiffany Pham

In You Are a Mogul, Tiffany Pham offers advice on everything from overcoming self-doubt, to pursuing side hustles, to crushing it at work by over-delivering, all the while remaining your authentic self.

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Crushing It!

How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too

by Gary Vaynerchuk

Crushing It! is a state-of-the-art guide to building your own path to professional and financial success, but it’s not about getting rich. It’s a blueprint for living life on your own terms.

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Profit First

Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

by Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz shows how to take profit first and spend only what remains on expenses. With this one change you will instantly transform your business from a cash-eating monster to a profitable cash cow.

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